No GnuPG library for now

Taral taral@taral.net
Thu, 19 Oct 2000 23:10:10 -0500 (CDT)


Quoting Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu>:


> > > * List all functionality in the system
> > > * Partition the system into modules
> > > * Define the exposed part of each module
> > > * Define the inter-module dependencies
> > > * Create the API for the modules
> >
> > That is a lot of work and I prefer to invest the time in auditing and
> > making the code cleaner.
>
> This is exactly the approach that software engineering courses and
> books
> teach against (unless you are doing XP, of course, which GnuPG doesn't
> seem to be doing).
Well, I _am_ an XP advocate to a certain extent. It always made sense to me. What I listed is basically what every large software project I work on eventually has had to do to avoid becoming spaghetti (or worse). -- Taral <taral@taral.net> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through the UT Austin Webmail service, https://webmail.utexas.edu